Vicky Cristina Barcelona
Vicky Cristina Barcelona is a great film, and I give it 5 out of 5 stars.
If you’re looking to watch a film about 3 physically attractive people “getting it on,” then this is probably not the movie to see. If you’re looking for arousing visual stimulation, there are many films more well suited to that pursuit.
But if you want to examine the incredibly complex chemistries and balances of love, in its many variations, this is an excellent film to study. It is one of the more realistic portrayals of multiple person relationship dynamics I’ve observed on film.
I praise the film because it is honest. High levels of sexual desire are revealed, and with them come the always accompanying high levels of different personal wants and strong emotions.
I appreciate that the film respected love.
There were no dumb characters, dumb plot progressions, or dumb ideas. And while that may not sound like it would be hard to achieve, I find that is a rare combination in films focusing on “alternative” love relationships.
And I agree with Woody Allen that love is often an incredibly finely balanced state of being. When it actually exists and persists, it is very rare.
And love still is a mystery and always keeps a mysterious element even in enduring relationships.
In one of my favorite scenes in the film, Juan Antonio is discussing why his marriage to Maria Elena failed. He states that both he and his wife thought they had thousands of quality compatibilities, desires, and chemistries. But their chemistry lacked just of few required and possibly unidentifiable elements.
And this is one of the great frustrations of “love.” You can have thousands of good things and be missing only a few, or even only one, essential element and that alone can disable love from advancing, continuing, or growing.
When romantic love continues between any two people, it is a treasured marvel to me.
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Hats off to the person who reviewed “Vicky, Cristina, Barcelona.” That person very astutely underscored the enduring value of the film. It moves us because it emphasizes that love remains a mystery and that so many different and elusive elements enter into the composition of its chemistry. The review hit home because in my recently published novel, “Getting Enough,” I have tried to show how attractions between two people can change either for better or for worse. The heroine, a still beautiful woman going through the menopause, thinks she despises her husband of 26 years. Only when she stops typecasting him does she discover to her astonishment that he is a person capable of immense tenderness and generosity. She falls in love with him for the first time in their acrimonious relationship, and while they move towards a loving reconciliation, marriages that seemed stronger than theirs disintegrate all over the place. For more information, kindly access the following website: http://www.strategicbookpublishing.com/GettingEnough.html.
Once again, my compliments to the reviewer.
What really puzzles me in this film is Cristina character, played by Scarlett Johansson, because she do not know what she wants, she “just knows what she don’t want”.
I find my life just now very similar. I have been married now over ten years and our relationship has gone to a state I don’t want.
But: In the end of the movie life just goes on, like in sit-coms. What did Cristina do in her life afterwards? I need a sequel! It is very disturbing NOT to know what one wants in life…